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I don't know what happened in PeA after I left and before Endacott took over. Whether physical bullying manifested itself, who knows? It did. How so...? You mean how do I know kids were being physically bullied? Um, by being bullied myself, seeing others on my year and below copping it too, and tal...

AMP wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 6:03 pmI don't know what happened in PeA after I left and before Endacott took over. Whether physical bullying manifested itself, who knows?

It did.

AMP wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 6:03 pmReading other accounts, it seems corporal punishment by monitors was sanctioned in PeA in the 90s.
Is this true?

No.

Anything behind a locked door was usually safe. Th B had a tuck room that was locked except for a few set times. It was fairly common for anyone going in to get "taxed" by any older kid who saw you go in. If you were dumb enough to keep anything outside that room (I was) in a box with a fl...

Why did life have to be so hard? The state of the kitchen didn't change, but the level of mindless vandalism was definitely lower when I got there, which I'm guessing would be around the time you left? Stuff went missing all the time but you'd usually get most of it back. In terms of clothing that ...

Was Gladding Housemaster of PeA after Jeffers? Nope. Jim Endacott got that job and (IMO) he did a lot to change the culture of the house for the better. Agree. The culture stunk. Definitely. From the time I started at CH, Pe. A had a pretty bad reputation, so much so that (years later) more than on...

Was Gladding Housemaster of PeA after Jeffers? Nope. Jim Endacott got that job and (IMO) he did a lot to change the culture of the house for the better. In my Grecians year, Howard Holdsworth took over from him and continued to improve things. There's only a few teachers from my time there I rememb...

Pe.A wrote: ↑Mon Feb 21, 2022 8:27 pmBut when you say "completely lost it one night in his Grecian's year?"- was that on a Saturday night, by any chance...?

Yep. Can't remember all the details but it involved booze and some other kid(s) getting a beating.

There was one kid on your year group in Peele A who was complete nutcase. Unpredictable, and just a nasty piece of work... I assume you mean the guy who was (eventually) asked to leave because he completely lost it one night in his Grecian's year? The only surprise was that he lasted as long as he ...

I did see some brutal fights, both in junior and senior houses (and i'm not talking about mere headlocks....) To be honest, I don't remember that many actual fights between just 2 kids, but I do remember a lot of instances of 1 kid getting a kicking from 5+. Those could be absolutely brutal. What o...

It really isn't difficult to implement a process. Indeed. When I think of some of the interview and hiring processes I've been through, I really don't understand why some places still appear to be so lax, especially when some care more deeply about appearances and institutional reputation than comp...

As for the 'comfort zone', what bl**dy comfort zone? What the hell is that meant to mean...? Sorry, I assumed this was a commonly understood term. A comfort zone is a situation which requires minimal effort to sustain, and where the same, minimal input, yields the same results. Sometimes referred t...

CH was, at most, 7 years of someone's life, so unless they're 8, they will have some practical experience of a world outside of it. Given that magical realism is, as far as I can tell, just a literary style, that world is indeed a real one. Of course, the "real world" has it's gatekeepers ...

If there was a new vote regarding Brexit I wonder what the result would be this time round. What a mess the country is in. It would be interesting to find out, but of course we won't. Sadly, I wouldn't be surprised if the outcome was the same, only more decisive... Not sure it'd be the same, but I ...

Brexit is not the cause of the lorry driver shortage but provides a convenient excuse for a remaincentric incompetent Establishment and a media that loves to fan the flames of discontent in any way possible. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6260516.stm. The linked article is from 2007 long befor...

RCP - Richard C Poulton. Former Headmaster.

As for the dark hour, I remember (or I think I remember) that a kid died around then and it may be referring to that. That's about all I can think of.